Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
9:30 am
Mr. David Gunning:
There has been a huge amount of detailed engagement between members of the design team - especially its inspectorate - and BAM throughout this whole process in terms of what they call walk downs, which is walking with the contractor and highlighting the issues that will be of interest and concern. That has been going on, so it is even more disappointing that we get to this point. You cannot inspect approximately 5,600 rooms in the last two weeks of this project. They have to be handed over in a sequence. When they are handed over zone by zone, room by room, that zone gets secured, and nobody goes in there again. It is now ready to allow CHI in the next time. There has to be a process to do it. The process is so frustrating because we are not there, but once it happens it will start to deliver rooms pretty quickly and the contractor will start to get its processes fine-tuned. At the moment we are not there. As Mr. Devine said, as of last week, we seem to be edging closer to that better level of performance.
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